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A Weekly Newspaper and Review.
DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.
From the B r ie ) o j H is H o lin ess P iu s IX . to T h e T a b l e t , June 4, 1870.
V o l . 82. No. 2777.
L o n d o n , J u l y 29, 1893-
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CONTENTS.
•Chronicle of th e W e ek :
Imperial Parliament : Home Rule Finance Debate— The Lords and Betterment— The Siamese Difficulty— Wednesday’s Sitting— The “ Victoria ” Court Martial— The Evidence o f Other Captains— The Court’s Decision — France and ! Siam— The Reply o f Siam— The
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British Naval Force in Siamese Waters--Lord Randolph Churchill’s New Constituency . . . . . . 161 '’’L eaders
The Archbishop o f Canterbury and the Schools . . . . . . 165 France and Siam . . . . . . 166 The Centenary of St. Edmund’s
College . . . . . . . . . 167 The Latin P lay at the Oratory
School . . . . . . . . 168 'The Centenary of St. Edmund’s
College ............................ . . 169
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N otes . . . . •• .. . . 172 Home Rule from a Catholic Stand
point ........................................................173 R eviews :
The Church in the Roman Empire 174 John Keble . - . . . . . 175 Two Story Books . . . . , . 175 An Island Princess.. . . . 175 Correspondence :
Rome :— (From Our Own Corre
spondent-) . . . . . . . . 177 Dublin :— (From Our Own Corre
spondent) ............................ . . 1 7 8 L etters to th e E ditor :
“ The Cross of Christ ” . . . . 180 Our Lady’s Dowry . . . . 180 London University and Matricu
lation Examination . . . . 181 A Club for Catholic Merchant
Seamen .. . . . . . . 181 Offertories at Folkestone . . . . 181 An In q u ir y ........................................... 181
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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
'IM PERIAL PARLIAMENT.
— HOME RULE FINANCE DEBATE.
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Committee on the Home Rule Bill resumed the Second Reading Debate on the first of Mr. Gladstone’s four new Financial Clauses. It provides that Ireland shall contribute one-third of its general revenue to the Imperial Exchequer as its share of the Imperial liabilities and expenditure; that the remaining two-thirds •shall form part of the special revenue of Ireland; that it ■ shall also pay any war tax imposed by Parliament; that, after six years from the passing of the Act the existing taxes in Ireland, other than the duties of Customs or Excise, shall be transferred to the Irish Legislature, and that the arrangement for Ireland’s contribution to Imperial liabilities shall be revised. Fifteen amendments have been put down by Nationalists to the Clause when it comes to be considered in Committee, and only seven stand in the name of Unionist members. Sir William Harcourt reiterated the principle he laid down last week as the principle on which the scheme was founded, namely, that the normal contribution of Ireland should be as nearly as possible what it was now, and what it has been for some few years past. He '■ had heard little that was new since Mr. Chamberlain had made his speech, and, in fact, where that right hon. gentleman had been there was little left for others to glean. To Mr. Chamberlain’s objections to the scheme, that the quota ■ had been fixed on an unstable basis, that it would be constantly fluctuating, andthat the scheme hampered both British and Irish finance, he replied that all the inconveniences Mr. ‘Chamberlain had pointed out existed at present. If the
Irish contribution had fallen, it was not because the revenue had decreased, but because the expenditure had increased, and this increase he attributed to the government of Ireland by coercion. He then criticized the plan which Mr. Chamberlain himself had submitted, and, in answer to the question which Sir J. Lubbock had pressed upon the ■ Government, why Ireland was to contribute only one-third ■ while England was made to contribute more than two-thirds, he maintained that the proportion had been forced upon the Government by the enormous, extravagant, and wanton •expenditure of their predecessors. For a regiment or two which were kept in Scotland, thirty thousand men were
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The Pope and American Schools . . 181 The Catholic Congress at Chicago.. 182 Foreign Missions and a Princely
Death .........................................183 O b ituary
Social and P olitical
SU P P L EM E N T . N ews from th e Schools :
Exhibition D ay at O scott.. . . 193 Exhibition Day at the Abbey
School, Fort Augustus . . . . 194 Exhibition Day at St. Gregory’s
College, Downside . . . . 194 Speech Day at Beaumont.. . . 195 Exhibition Day at Arnpleforth . . 195 Speech Day at St. Philip’s Gram
mar School, Birmingham . . 196 St. Mary’s College, Woolhampton 196
Schools (Continued):
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Prize Distribution at Howrah
House, Poplar . . . . . . xg6 The Proposed New Catholic Col
lege in St. Andrews . . . . 197 Rate-aid to Voluntary Schools .. Public Elementary Schools and the House o f Lords Mr. A . R iley and the Religious
Instruction Controversy The School Board Question at
197 198 . 184
Aberavon .. About Education . .
184 184
N ews from th e D ioceses :
S o u th w a r k ............................ . . 1 8 5 Clifton ........................................... 3:85 Hexham and Newcastle . . . . 186 Nottingham .. . . . . . . 186 Portsmouth . . . . . . . . 1 8 6 Salford ........................... . . 1 8 7 Glasgow ........................................... 3:87 Some Publications o f the Week 187
kept in Ireland. The cost of the police in England was 2s. rod. per head of the population ; in Scotland, is. nd . ; but in Ireland, 6s. rod. That was the cost to the Irish people of resolute government. The cost of the administration of justice was only 3% d . per head in England, but in Ireland it was is. 7j^d., and the most of that went to the loyal minority. That was why Ireland was called upon to pay a third only of her revenue. That was the payment and cost of what was called the English garrison, and government by force. To make Ireland pay two-thirds, her taxation must be doubled, and he did not believe that any Unionist would advocate that before his constituents. He believed the scheme was a good bargain for the British Exchequer. The Unionist system of administration had been a system of eleemosynary coercion, with an army in one hand and a purse in the other. Mr. Jackson repudiated the charge that the large grants of money for light railways and similar works were bribes offered by Mr. Balfour to buy off the hostility of the Irish people, and he challenged the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he thought that an army of thirty thousand men was maintained in Ireland to keep it in order, to withdraw the troops from Ireland. There was not a man who did not know that the keeping of the troops in Ireland was a great benefit financially to that country, and very popular also with the people. He objected to the scheme of the Government because it withdrew from Ireland her rightful share of a growing Imperial expenditure and threw it entirely on the British taxpayer. Mr. Bartley, Colonel Nolan, Dr. Rentoul, and Mr. Hunter carried on the Debate during the dinner-hour. Mr. Goschen pointed out that the cardinal object of the Government was to provide a surplus of ,¿500,000 for the Irish Government, which had to be got by hook or by crook, and the figures had to be adapted for that purpose. It was a bonus given to Ireland by England under the coercion of the Irish vote. It was this half-million which was an eleemosynary sop to Ireland, and not that sum spent by the late Government on light railways. A more unfounded and scandalous charge than that of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, that these relief works were to buy off Irish hostility had never been made. He insisted that the errors of irresolution and of a wobbling Government had cost more than any attempt at resolute government. The British taxpayer would by the scheme be made to pay ,£700,000, of which ,¿500,000 was for Constabulary and £200,000 was an ingenious device in connection with the collection of the revenue. He could not see why a third of the cost of the Constabulary should be put on the
